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...head start on becoming one of the 96,000 students accepted each year by public universities. The last years are the hardest, says Jin Watanabe, a tenth-grader. "On the first day of tenth grade the teachers will tell you how many days you have left till the final university exams begin...
...Witnesses also teach that the Second Coming occurred secretly in 1914, a date reached by complex historical and biblical rationales; the end of the world system must occur during the present generation (an interpretation of Luke 21: 32: "This generation will not pass away till all has taken place"). The dissidents have come to believe that Christ's kingdom and the "last days" were inaugurated at about A.D. 33, and that Christ's Second Coming is a future event...
...made. The substantial funds diverted by IBM from productive areas like research to its legal department and the years the company set back cautiously watching the government's actions helped allow substantial foreign competition to gain a foothold in one of America's most important export industries. Not till several years ago did the computer manufacturer abandon its careful stance and convinced it would win the case, plunge back into the fight by introducing new product lines and cutting prices. The Reagan Administration's courage in dropping a case that has dragged harmfully on through both Republican and Democratic administrations...
...After tea, the bugle sounded under the Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...
Wesleyan is one of small minority of colleges--including Harvard and Swarthmore--that up till now have pursued a completely "aid-blind" admissions policy, under which they promise to spend as much money on aid as it necessary to let accepted applicants attend, Harvard and Wesleyan admissions officers said yesterday...